Cushier, Elizabeth (1837–1932)
Cushier, Elizabeth (1837–1932)
American physician. Born 1837 in New York; died 1932; longtime companion of Emily Blackwell (physician).
Highly influential American woman physician and surgeon of the 1800s, graduated from Woman's Medical College of the New York Infirmary for Women and Children (1872); studied histology in Zurich; returned to New York Infirmary as obstetrics professor, resident physician, and administrator; opened private practice which offered gynecological surgery; continued work at New York Infirmary after its Woman's Medical College closed (1899); retired and traveled to Europe with Emily Blackwell, then settled in Montclair, NJ, with summer home in York Cliffs, Maine.
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